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Local Engineering Firm Wins Special Achievement Award
Forty-Eight Illinois firms were recognized for excellence in engineering before an audience of over 470 engineers, clients, and government officials at an Awards Luncheon held February 2, 2007 at The Drake Hotel, Chicago. The firms were recognized for award-winning engineering projects in the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois' Thirty-Sixth Annual Engineering Excellence Awards Competition. The competition recognizes outstanding projects designed by private practice engineering firms from the State of Illinois.
Bowman, Barrett & Associates, Inc. of Chicago won a Special Achievement award for their work on the Chicago Skyway 106th Street Viaduct, which was designed for the Chicago Department of Transportation. Special Achievement Awards are given for projects "worthy of special recognition of the engineer and the owner/client for achieving engineering excellence."
Judges for the 2007 Engineering Excellence Awards Competition were: Dr. Robert H. Dodds, Jr., Head, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois; Jan Grimes, Executive Director, Capital Development Board; Gary Loss, Deputy for Programs and Project Management, USACE Rock Island; Milt Sees, Director of Highways, IDOT; Marvin Traylor, Director of Engineering & Research, IL Asphalt Pavement Association; Amy Walkenbach, Manager, Nonpoint Source Unit, Bureau of Water, IEPA; John Yonan, Deputy Commissioner, Division of Engineering, Chicago Department of Transportation.
Bowman, Barrett & Associates Inc. is a full service engineering firm founded in 1989. With over 70 professionals on staff, BB&A provides engineering services to the transportation industry, architects, and developers throughout the United States.